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Cake day: August 6th, 2024

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  • Most people don’t understand art, as most people also don’t understand chess. It’s important to accept that art is not something you can understand just because you like it or not, that’s not the same thing; in the same way that’s important to accept that a move made by a grandmaster chess player cannot be judged by someone who doesn’t understand chess at a deep enough level. Science follows a similar conundrum, people don’t understand even the most fundamental level of a certain field beyond their high-school knowledge and they still believe themselves capable of judging what science is.

    We, as humans, and as a society, must learn to accept our own shortcomings and take pride in not having an opinion about something that we do not understand enough. It’s fine to listen and like some tunes, but that does not give you the qualifications and knowledge to judge the quality of music and art. For that, you’d have to go deeper, and then you would also become a “snob”.